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In reply to the discussion: Cop pulls over black teen, notices he is terrified [View all]mythology
(9,527 posts)It never ends. Cops say they have to worry about functionally limitless guns and having every death of a citizen resulting in them being protested regardless of the facts, and blacks say they have to worry about every cop trying to kill them and both sides feel justified in digging in with out realizing that there is some validity and some non-validity to each side. People who feel threatened or can't imagine themselves not being 100% correct make worse decisions. It doesn't help the case of being against police violence when people use the Michael Brown case for example.
If instead you are less caught up in trying to assign blame, you can instead trying to start making things better. Assigning blame as all the fault of cops and not of larger societal issues shows a lack of critical thinking on the issue. It shows you haven't looked at the evidence that we're universally bad at properly identifying if a black or Hispanic person is holding a gun or something else because our society has given us that subconscious bias. You aren't accounting for the prevalence of guns in the general population.
It's easy to assign blame and say it's all that other group that has to change. It's simplistic, naive and doesn't lend itself to resolving problems.